NCC Users Meeting April 23, 2013

Announcements & Discussion Retiring: Margaret Massengale (Bedford) Shirley Whittemore (N. Ridgeville) Tim DeFrange (Our Lady of the Elms)

Announcements & Discussion Next year’s meeting schedule: Thursday, August 8, 2013 (PD Day) Tuesday, October 1, 2013 Wednesday, December 4, 2013 Thursday, March 6, 2014 Tuesday, May 6, 2014 (OELMA = Oct 16-18, 2013 and eTech = Jan 27-29, 2014)

Announcements & Discussion Training Schedule for posted. Upcoming End-of-Year Sirsi Stats webinar on April 30. INFOhio Core Collection – no news yet. Questions about calendars? Questions about patron update form? OELMA news and update

Announcements & Discussion Magazine records – please submit requests before summer break so we can load them over the summer. Summer contact information (for both upgrade and August PD Day) BrainPop Group Purchase Opportunity update Call for volunteers: Advisory/Focus group to help identify CIP goals for NCC Library Services Noodletools demo this afternoon

District Level ICoach Qualifications  Knowledge of Standards, 21 st century skills, INFOhio resources, teaching or library experience. Training  3 webinars (June ? and Boot Camp Aug. 5-7) Requirements  2 trainings per year, reports, online community Application due April 30.

Director’s Report John Mitchell, Executive Director

Users Council Jane Spencer and Deby Cokain

Save the Dates: August 5-7, 2013 INFOhio BootCamp A Summer Spa Treatment Just for You

OH! Lead: Transformative Leadership through Technology

 Developed in cooperation with eTech staff  Audience Educators and Education Staff  Several Modules are Planned  Module 1 will be Completed before Spring eTeach Administrator Course Modules

eBooks for INFOhio supporting the 3 rd Grade Reading Guarantee Where are we?

Two vendors responded Mackin Ebsco All materials quoted had 24/7 simultaneous unlimited access. INFOhio would own them in perpetuity. Getting Closer …

INFOhio’s IMatrix Is Making News! Read the full article here:

INFOhio Users Council NCC / INFOhio Users Council Representatives New representative! Polly Jones, Andrews Osborne Academy Thank you to Deby Cokain for continuing to represent in and to Jane Spencer for her dedication and service.

KnowItNow KnowItNow24x7 Coordinator, Don Boozer Cleveland Public Library

WVIZ Ann Ebersole – Online Learning Coordinator Online classes and professional development opportunities

End-of-year tasks See handout. (LN:) Bill/Ovd List, inactive - Outputs bills AND overdues Discharge old transactions: - Checks out overdues to missing or lost. - Checked-out-before date or due-before-date - Can also limit by expired-before-date.

Automation Update Sirsi Workflows Upgrade over summer! If WF installed under (each) user login to the computer, library staff member can do update. If unsure how installed, ask school or district tech support to uninstall, remove Sirsi folders, and reinstall under each user login to the computer.

RDA – Resource Description and Access Just getting started Will make our library metadata more user focused, more globally-minded, and more easily used Includes changes in terminology, formatting, and the addition of some MARC fields Catalog records will remain in MARC (for awhile) Transition to RDA will be a function of SIRSI integration

Automation Update For Now: AACR2  RDA Cataloging: Some vendors are offering RDA compliant MARC records For the time being, stick with AACR2, until notified otherwise

Automation Update Discussion: The INFOhio Videos and eBooks can be included in the OPAC search results by default. This is currently available only at the ITC level. (District-level is a future enhancement.) Suggestion: activate the option and see how it goes. Thoughts?

Automation Update Reading Level Report Tip Take the reading level search syntax from the OPAC and use it within Workflows to:  Search for items via the Item Search/Display wizard  Generate a CAT: Shelflist Report of items matching the OPAC search criteria Works for Lexiles, Accelerated Reader, and Reading Counts

Reading Level Report Lexile example: From the OPAC Reading level search, enter the desired scores

Reading Level Report Copy the syntax that appears above the search results

Reading Level Report Paste the search syntax into the Item Search/Display wizard within Workflows Remove the “ ”, select the General Index and Keyword Search Type

Reading Level Report Generate a CAT: Shelflist report (INFOhio tab) Recommendation: add the search criteria in the Report Title so that it displays in the header of the finished report

Reading Level Report Paste the search syntax into the search string tab/field, again removing the “ ” Enter the library on the Item Selection tab Select Output Options as desired  Brief/Long = RTF  Spreadsheet = Plain Text

Reading Level Report Add other search terms as desired

Reading Level Report If you have added a search term, remove both the “ ” and any occurrences of “keyword” from the search syntax use this same, cleaned-up syntax for the shelflist search string

Reading Level Report Similar to the above, for Accelerated Reader, if entering reading levels and points, remove the “ ” and any occurrences of “keyword” from the search syntax to use in Item Search/Display

Reading Level Report The Accelerated Reader example above becomes a bit trickier in the CAT: Shelflist report Take the syntax which has already been cleaned up from the OPAC (“ ” and keyword removed) Remove ACCELERATED READER SAME from the beginning Tack ‘and Accelerated Reader’ onto the end

Reading Level Report So this... becomes this... {READPROG}>=060 =10075<=10080 AND Accelerated Reader Full disclosure: The above may not always match the OPAC results 100%, but it is reasonably close.

Webinar Cindy Beerkircher, Mitinet

See you next year! Lunch is available in Room 101 Noodletools Demo at 1 PM here (Room 102) Open Lab / Patron Update Form in Room 101